Buck-saw



(No Model.)

S. WALTER. BUCK SAW.

No. 315,577. Patented Apf. 14, 1885.

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s ATTORNEY w m I WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL WALTER, OF DALLAS CITY, ILLINOIS.

BUCIKJ-SAW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,577, dated April 14, 1885.

Application filcd October 17, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUELWALTER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Dallas City, in the county of Hancock and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buck-Saws, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to improvements in buck-saws; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of devices, as will be hereinafter more fully explained, and particularly pointed out in the claim appended.

The annexed drawings, to which reference is made, fully illustrate my invention, in

- which Figure 1 represents a side view of a saw, showing my improvement 5 and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the lever c. 7

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, .A designates a buck-saw, the frame portion of which is constructed in the usual manner. The upper ends of the front and rear bars of the frame are each provided with a long link, a, and a short link, I). The latter is connected to a notch in one end of the fulcrum-lever c, which connection forms the fulcrum of the lever whereby the saw-frame is tightened To the hook end def this lever is connected one end of a rackbar, e, the teeth of which engage one end of the long link, as shown. This fulcrum-lever is provided at the opposite end to that of the fulcrum end with being secured to the short link I), which engages with the rear arm of said frame, and I l the hook f on the end of said lever, by which the same is secured to the link a and the tension of the frame secured.

. In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in presenceof two witnesses.

SAMUEL WALTER.

Witnesses:

G. B. WILLIAMS, J. S. SWOYER.

gaging at one end with the lever a, the said lever I 

